Lesson 9: Router
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Install a router bit in a router.
Operate a router, following safety rules.
Use various types of guides as appropriate for different routing operations.
What safety precautions should you take before cutting with the router?
What are the two basic types of routers?
How are wrenches used to install the router bit?
In which direction should you move the router when routing outside edges? Inside edges?
Why is a long straightedge cutting guide better than a short one?
Fixer-base Router
Freehand Routing
Pilot End
Plunge Router
Router
Router Bit
WM.03 Identify and describe the safe and appropriate use of various types of hand and power tools and machinery used for building.
WM.03.07 Identify proper use and function of stationary saws.
WM.03.08 Identify the proper use and function specialty machinery (e.g. drill presses. jointers. surface planers. table saws. power miter saws. band saws. scroll saws. and stationary sanders.*
WM.03.14 Select appropriate tools, procedures, and/or equipment.
WM.03.15 Follow laboratory safety rules and procedures.
WM.03.16 Demonstrate good housekeeping at a workstation within total laboratory.
WM.04 Explain and be able to demonstrate the methods involved in turning raw materials into useable products.
WM.04.04 Interpret a design to facilitate replication
WM.05 Describe and demonstrate the attributes of wood design.
WM.05.01 Utilize the design process; including defining a problem, brainstorming, researching and generating ideas, identifying criteria and specifying constraints, exploring possibilities, selecting an approach, developing a design proposal, making a model or prototype, testing and evaluating the design using specifications, refining the design, creating or making it, and communicating processes and results.
WM.05.02 Check and critique a design continually, and improve and revise the idea of the design as needed.
Reading for understanding with the intent to apply concepts to hands on projects throughout the course.
DOK Level: 1 Define, match, recall, & label
DOK Level: 2 Explain, outline, and summarize
Standard copy of Text
Highlighted copy of Text for ELL, 504, IEP
Students will complete a Google Quiz based on readings
Glencoe-Wood Technology & Processes Textbook and Workbook